gallium

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English

Crystals of 99.999% gallium

Chemical element
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Etymology

Named by its discoverer Lecoq, after Latin Gallia (“Gaul”). It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡælɪəm/

Noun

gallium (uncountable)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.

Synonyms

• eka-aluminium (name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of gallium in his periodic table)

Derived terms

Derived terms

aluminium gallium arsenide, aluminum gallium arsenide aluminium gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride copper indium gallium selenide gallane gallium arsenide gallium arsenide phosphide

gallium citrate gallium gadolinium garnet gallium nitrate gallium nitride indium gallium nitride

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: gallium Albanian: galium Arabic: جاليوم (gályum) m. Armenian: գալիում (hy) (galium) Basque: galioa Belarusian: галiй (gálij) m. Bosnian: galij (bs) Breton: galliom Bulgarian: галий (gálij) m. Catalan: gal·li Chinese: 鎵 (jiā) Cornish: galyum Croatian: galij (hr) m. Czech: gallium (cs) Danish: gallium (da) Dutch: gallium (nl) n. Esperanto: galio (eo), galiumo (eo) Estonian: gallium (et) Faroese: gallium (fo) Finnish: gallium (fi) French: gallium (fr) m. Friulian: gali Galician: galio Georgian: გალიუმი (galiumi) German: Gallium (de) n. Greek: γάλλιο (el) (gállio) n. Hebrew: גליום (galium) Hungarian: gallium (hu) Icelandic: gallín (is) Interlingua: gallium Irish: gailliam (ga) Italian: gallio (it) m. Japanese: ガリウム (ja) (gariumu)

Kashubian: gôl Kazakh: галлий (kk) (gálliy) Korean: 갈륨 (gallyum) Latvian: gallijs Lithuanian: galis (lt) Luxembourgish: Gallium Macedonian: галиум (gálium) m. Malay: gallium (ms) Maltese: gallju Manx: gallium Mongolian: галли (galli) Norwegian: gallium (no) Polish: gal (pl) m. Portuguese: gálio (pt) m. Romanian: galiu (ro) n. Russian: галлий (ru) (gállij) m. Scottish Gaelic: gailliam Serbian: галиjум (galijum) m. Slovak: gálium Slovene: galij (sl) Spanish: galio (es) m. Swedish: gallium (sv) n. Tajik: galli' Tamil: மென்தங்கம் (men-thangam) Thai: แกลเลียม (kaenliam) Turkish: galyum (tr) Ukrainian: галiй (hálij) m. Uzbek: галлий (uz) (galliy) Vietnamese: gali (vi) Volapük: galin (vo) Welsh: galiwm West Frisian: gallium

External links

For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Ga (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

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Noun

gallium n.

1. gallium

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Estonian

Noun

gallium (genitive galliumi, partitive galliumi or galliumit)

1. gallium

Declension

Declension of gallium (type seminar)

	singular	plural
nominative	gallium	galliumid
genitive	galliumi	galliumide
partitive	galliumi	galliume
illative	galliumi galliumisse	galliumidesse galliumesse
inessive	galliumis	galliumides galliumes
elative	galliumist	galliumidest galliumest
allative	galliumile	galliumidele galliumele
adessive	galliumil	galliumidel galliumel
ablative	galliumilt	galliumidelt galliumelt
translative	galliumiks	galliumideks galliumeks
terminative	galliumini	galliumideni
essive	galliumina	galliumidena
abessive	galliumita	galliumideta
comitative	galliumiga	galliumidega

Declension of gallium (type redel)

	singular	plural
nominative	gallium	galliumid
genitive	galliumi	galliumite
partitive	galliumit	galliumeid
illative	galliumisse	galliumitesse galliumeisse
inessive	galliumis	galliumites galliumeis
elative	galliumist	galliumitest galliumeist
allative	galliumile	galliumitele galliumeile
adessive	galliumil	galliumitel galliumeil
ablative	galliumilt	galliumitelt galliumeilt
translative	galliumiks	galliumiteks galliumeiks
terminative	galliumini	galliumiteni
essive	galliumina	galliumitena
abessive	galliumita	galliumiteta
comitative	galliumiga	galliumitega

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Finnish

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Noun

gallium

1. gallium

Declension

Declension of gallium (type risti) singular plural nominative gallium galliumit genitive galliumin galliumien partitive galliumia galliumeja accusative gallium galliumin galliumit inessive galliumissa galliumeissa elative galliumista galliumeista illative galliumiin galliumeihin adessive galliumilla galliumeilla ablative galliumilta galliumeilta allative galliumille galliumeille essive galliumina galliumeina translative galliumiksi galliumeiksi instructive – galliumein abessive galliumitta galliumeitta comitative – galliumeineen

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡa.ljɔm/

Noun

gallium m. (usually uncountable)

1. gallium

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɒlːijum/
• Hyphenation: gal‧li‧um

Noun

gallium (plural galliumok)

1. gallium (symbol: Ga)

Declension

declension of gallium singular plural nominative gallium galliumok accusative galliumot galliumokat dative galliumnak galliumoknak instrumental galliummal galliumokkal causal-final galliumért galliumokért translative galliummá galliumokká terminative galliumig galliumokig essive-formal galliumként galliumokként essive-modal - - inessive galliumban galliumokban superessive galliumon galliumokon adessive galliumnál galliumoknál illative galliumba galliumokba sublative galliumra galliumokra allative galliumhoz galliumokhoz elative galliumból galliumokból delative galliumról galliumokról ablative galliumtól galliumoktól

possessives of gallium possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. galliumom galliumaim 2nd person sing. galliumod galliumaid 3rd person sing. galliuma galliumai 1st person plural galliumunk galliumaink 2nd person plural galliumotok galliumaitok 3rd person plural galliumuk galliumaik

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈʝɑ˦ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

gallium n.

1. (uncountable) gallium
2. A part of gallium

Inflection

Declension of gallium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	gallium	gallia	gallieke	galliekes
Genitive	galliums	gallia	galliekes	galliekes
Locative	gallieës	gallieëser	gallieëske	gallieëskes
Dative¹	galliumme	—	gallieke	—
Accusative¹	gallium	—	gallieke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Swedish

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Noun

gallium n. (uncountable)

1. gallium

Declension

Declension of gallium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	gallium	galliumet
genitive	galliums	galliumets